A Million Heavens (McSweeney's Rectangulars) by John Brandon

At the most sensible ground of a small health facility, an not going piano prodigy lies in a coma, attended to via his gruff, helpless father. open air the hospital, a motley vigil assembles underneath a reluctant New Mexico winter—strangers looking for solutions, a broom with the magical, or simply an get away. to a couple the boy is a novelty, to others a faith. simply past this ragtag circle roams a disconsolate wolf on his nightly rounds, keeping and perilous, studying an excessive amount of. And above all of them, a would-be angel sits captive in a keeping cellphone of the afterlife, completing the paintings he started in the world, writing the songs that can unfastened him. This not likely assortment—a small-town mayor, a vengeful guitarist, all of the unseen wasteland lives—unites to weave a repeatedly hopeful tale of inconceivable communion.

Upon the discharge of John Brandon's final novel, Citrus County, the New York Times declared that he "joins the ranks of writers like Denis Johnson, pleasure Williams, Mary Robison and Tom Drury." Now, with A Million Heavens, Brandon brings his deadpan humor and hard-won empathy to a brand new realm of gritty surrealism—a astonishing and fascinating flip from the most effective younger novelists of our time.

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